The water level in the reservoirs of the Dam that supplies the North-Eastern City of the Mor-Eastern City of the MHHAD fell below 3%, reports said, as the reports said, as the reports said the severe water shortage.
“Water storage in the dams of Mashhad has now fallen to a minimum of 3%,” said Hossein Esmaeiliian, the chief executive of Iran’s population water company.
He added: “The current situation shows that managing water use is no longer a recommendation – it has become a necessity.”
Mashhad, home to up to 4 million people and Iran’s holiest city, relies on four dams for its water supply.
Esmaeilian said that the town’s consumption reached “8,000 liters per second, of which about 1,000 to 1,500 liters per second are supplied from the dams”.
Authorities in Tehran warned over the weekend of final cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials are calling the worst drought in decades. The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has warned that if there is no rain before winter, even TEHRAN will face evacuation.
In the capital, five large dams supplying drinking water are at “Critical” levels, with one empty and another less than 8% capacity, officials said.
“If people reduce consumption by 20%, it seems possible to manage the situation without rationing or cutting water,” warned that those with the highest consumption will face cuts first.
Across the country, 19 large dams – about 10% of the country’s reservoirs – are effectively running dry, Abbasali keykhaei said late in Iran’s water sector, according to Mehr News Agency.
Iran’s water crisis follows months of drought across the country.
The summer authorities have announced public holidays in Tehran to prevent water and energy consumption as the capital faces almost daily attacks.
Sunday’s local papers attacked what they described as an environmental decision-maker for the water crisis.
The reformist newspaper Etemad cited the appointment of “unqualified managers … in the main institutions” as the main cause of the crisis.
Sharh, another daily reformist, said: “The climate is being sacrificed for politics.”